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Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times
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Nurse-midwife Lillo Kuape rushes barely breathing newborn Mankuebe Nyoba to the intensive-care nursery at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Maseru, Lesotho. Equipment is desperately lacking at the hospital, where six babies simultaneously share oxygen from a single valve. Lack of a second $35 valve meant there was no oxygen for Mankuebe, and she died, although Kuape worked for two hours unsuccessfully to revive the newborn.